Occupation: Professor Birth: 1954
We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Pr….
Responding to climate change will become the obsession of the next decade in much the same way terrorism was this decade's obsession..
The most important thing that a company can do in the midst of this economic turmoil is to not lose sight of the long-term perspective. Don't confuse….
I think of futurists as people who have a particular attitude about the future. They're advocates for a certain kind of outcome. As a forecaster I am….
My advice is don't use technology primarily to lower costs. Use technology to create new, effective ways of touching the market and creating new busi….
Sometimes I think we're on this world for three reasons: to be useful, to tell each other stories and to collect stuff. It's the only explanation for….
Never mistake a clearer view for a short distance just because the technology looks like it's about to arrive in the very near future. Chances are th….
It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself..
The value of a social network is defined not only by who's on it, but by who's excluded..
As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit Ch….
Google was the right set of people at the right time, and they ended up doing the right set of things. It's worth looking at how they are managed. Th….
Stock prices turn people's heads. When prices are high, we treat a company like gods, and if they drop, we treat them as fools..
The difference between our collective generation and your generation (differentiating the reporters from the students) is that we poured our souls ou….
I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesna….
I think the most important thing that a company can do, not just in the customer space but the employee space, is to be completely open and completel….
Hipness is the only asset that matters..
I'm not sure the notion of employee or job is going to survive the transition over the next couple of decades. The very notion of a fulltime job will….
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning out technologies and capturin….
I've actually tried not to call myself a futurist for the last 25 years. I prefer "forecaster," but people call me a futurist, and it doesn't really ….
Microsoft is a big intellectual roach motel. All the big minds go in, and they don't come out..
Using technology merely to lower operational costs amounts to standing on a whale fishing for minnows. It just allows you to do the old thing more ef….